Is Maria Mena's "You're The Only One" the new Worst Thing Evah?

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I just heard her sing this song/tripe on Letterman, and it's the most moronic sub-Alanis piece of shit I've ever encountered.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 06:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm gonna d/l the mp3 just to make sure, maybe she's just not much of a live act-but unless it's dramatically better....ewwwwwwwwww.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I've heard the studio cut and done research, wait a sec....
By 2004 Mena was 18, and ready to take her dark-eyed glamour and smooth, faintly-alternative pop (aided in craft by Norwegian songwriter/producer Arvid Solvang) on to the international stage.
I thought something was up! It's Scandinavian assembly line lolitapop! But REALLY piling on the Alanis type vibe. There's even a pseudo-Liz Phair-type part where she tells the guy he's got a little dick even though he doesn't cuz if he knew was a big donger he had he's find a better girlfriend or something. This is SOOOOO BAD, I'm starting to like it! Ace of Base '04 style, baby!
Of course if she was American, that would ruin everything.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link

there's so many typos in that you'll just have to deal with it. Man, it's late...

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link

You're pretty spot on, but at the same time I still find myself a little suckered in by its pop hooks.

― Mil (Mil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link

The fact that she's NORWEGIAN, but has appropriated Alanis' accent/speech pattern almost EXACTLY makes it way more funny and interesting than it would be otherwise.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I know I'm getting worked up here, but I had NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THIS SHIT until tonight. I'd also like to point out that the backing band sounds precisely like a cross between the Queer Eye For The Straight Guy theme song and music from a feminine hygeine product commercial. Thank you and goodnight.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh man this is better than any Alanis song because she sounds genuinely disturbed rather than self-adoring.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

OK I'm listening to it again now and its really only the verses that are a dead-on Alanis impersonation.

The chorus sounds like it was culled straight from an 80's teen movie.

― Mil (Mil), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i like this song but
less since i learned she was not
a latina. still.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

"I am the only one whooooooooooo..."

― whoooooo, Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

did anybody else think that when TLC sang that "hangin out the passenger side..." line from "no scrubs", they sounded JUST like alanis? maybe i should post this in that other thread. anyway, just for that one line, but it always got me. got me SICK!

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

although i guess i did sort of have a soft spot for TLC...

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh man this is better than any Alanis song

I might have to agree with you there. I mean this song is such a shameless soundalike that I actually listened to Jagged Little Pill last night before bed in an attempt to regain my sanity. By the end of the first track I had decided that this girl is much less annoying than Alanis. The only song on JLP I can say I like without irony(har!) is "Head Over Feet", which along with "Thank You", is the only song of hers I place any value on whatsoever. Of course I feel Alanis' lyrics are uniformly terrible, some of the worst I've ever heard. The Mena song's lyrics aren't as bad, but I haven't determined whether she wrote them herself or not. Anyone know the songwriting credit on this?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

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